Leadership: Styles and Behaviors
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Leadership:Leadership:Styles andStyles andBehaviorsBehaviors
Chapter 14
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LeadershipLeadership
• The use of power and influence to direct the activities of followers toward goal achievement
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Leadership StylesLeadership Styles
• Is there likely to be one best style?
• What factors might impact the appropriateness of the various styles?
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Time-Time-SensitivSensitive Modele Model
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Time-Sensitive ModelTime-Sensitive Model
• Scientific support:๏ In one study, following the model resulted in
effective decisions 68% of the time. Not following the model resulted in effective decisions 22% of the time.
• Leaders’ instincts usually violate the model๏ Leaders overuse consultative styles and
underutilize autocratic and facilitative
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Day-to-Day BehaviorsDay-to-Day Behaviors
• There are two broad dimensions that encompass day-to-day leadership behaviors๏ Initiating Structure
๏ Defining and structuring the roles of employees for goal attainment
๏ Consideration๏ Creating job relationships characterized by mutual
trust, respect, and consideration of employees’ feelings
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Day-to-Day-to-DayDay
BehaviorBehaviorss
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Something Is MissingSomething Is Missing
• Think about the most effective leaders you can name
• Do the leader behaviors and styles discussed thus far capture what it was that made these leaders so effective?
• So what’s missing?
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Transformational LeadershipTransformational Leadership
• A pattern of behaviors that inspires followers to commit to a shared vision that provides meaning to their work and sets the leader up as a role model who helps followers reach their potential
• It is most often contrasted with so-called “transactional leadership,” which is built around exchanges of rewards and punishments, or “laissez-faire” leadership, which is the absence of action
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Transformational Transformational LeadershipLeadership
• Idealized influence (charisma)• Inspirational motivation• Intellectual stimulation• Individualized consideration
(coaching)
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Transformational LeadershipTransformational Leadership
• OB on Screen: The King’s Speech๏ What kinds of
transformational statements are typically given by national leaders in times of war?
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How Important is Leadership?How Important is Leadership?